I can’t believe it has been more than a week since my last post. Time flies when you are busy and on the road in places where there is little to no connectivity. I have a bunch of saved comments and will try to catch up over the next few days. A lot is happening in the atomic industry that I want to bring to your attention. Stay tuned!
Rod Adams is Managing Partner of Nucleation Capital, a venture fund that invests in advanced nuclear, which provides affordable access to this clean energy sector to pronuclear and impact investors. Rod, a former submarine Engineer Officer and founder of Adams Atomic Engines, Inc., which was one of the earliest advanced nuclear ventures, is an atomic energy expert with small nuclear plant operating and design experience. He has engaged in technical, strategic, political, historic and financial analysis of the nuclear industry, its technology, regulation, and policies for several decades through Atomic Insights, both as its primary blogger and as host of The Atomic Show Podcast. Please click here to subscribe to the Atomic Show RSS feed. To join Rod's pronuclear network and receive his occasional newsletter, click here.
A friend of mine recently wrote a letter to Catholic Online in response to an opinion piece masquerading as an article. The piece was titled Canadian Catholic News: Nuclear energy called ‘a deeply spiritual issue’. The piece was an extensive rehashing of disinformation that has been spread for many years by Helen Caldicott, a professional…
As we watch Hurricane Katrina come ashore and pray for the safety of the people who were not able to evacuate, there is little doubt that oil and natural gas production in the Gulf of Mexico is going to be seriously affected by this massive storm. Off shore wells and the pipelines that connect them…
One of my dad’s hobbies when I was growing up was collecting glasses given away by service stations in the days before they became just gas stations that provided little service at all. One of his favorite examples of this art form was a glass with a picture of the Exxon tiger with the slogan…
Chairman of the Bahraini parliament Khalifa Al-Dhahrani has indicated that he believes that nuclear energy is an important tool for nations to develop because oil and gas supplies will eventually dry up. Bahrain has first hand knowledge of the risk of oil depletion; it was one of the first countries in the Middle East to…
As a student of the electrical power industry’s history, I have found many stories of a long running competition between public and private power suppliers. For most of my life, this discussion has been rather muted, with private forces seeming to have conquered the battlefield. The vast majority of the electrical power in the US…
The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) is one of the most respected news sources in the world. Its status as a media tax supported organization that does not completely depend on advertising dollars has allowed it to maintain investigative journalism departments, to continue to cover the world and to produce high quality dramatic shows that do…
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